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OneWorld Now! (Student)

OneWorld Now!-STARTALK Summer Language Camp

Language(s)

Arabic, Chinese, Korean

Grade Level(s)

9-12

Date(s)

July 10, 2017 – July 28, 2017: (Face-to-face)

Location(s)

OneWorld Now! @ Franklin High School, Seattle, WA

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

OneWorld Now!’s vision is that all young Americans have access to transformative international education. In our tenth year offering the STARTALK summer immersion program, we will hold a three-week-long, non-residential Arabic, Chinese, and Korean language immersion program for at least 51 non-heritage high school students in Seattle, with a focus on minority and low-income high school youth. The program includes 15 six-hour days, for a total of 90 contact hours. The desired outcome of the STARTALK-OWN Summer Language Camp is to introduce the students to Arabic, Mandarin Chinese and Korean, motivate them to continue their language and cultural studies, and encourage them to explore related post-secondary studies and careers with a demand for critical languages.

Contact(s)

University of Washington (Teacher)

Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century

Language(s)

Date(s)

June 26, 2017 – July 5, 2017: (Online)

July 6, 2017 – July 21, 2017: (Face-to-face)

Location(s)

University of Washington Language Learning Center, Seattle, WA

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

The STARTALK Teacher Program, “Preparing Language Teachers for the 21st Century,” will prepare 10 native (or near native) speakers of Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, or Russian to teach in a standards and content-based program, focused on developing communicative proficiency and accuracy in students learning these languages and on integrating STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) into language instruction. The program is designed to teach participants the STARTALK principles and standards-based language teaching and curriculum development, as well as the content knowledge needed to pass the Washington Educator Skills Test – Endorsement (WEST-E) for World Languages. Teachers will be able to work toward obtaining a P-12 World Language Endorsement for teaching these languages in Washington K-12 public schools. The program also provides scholarship assistance to complete the required assessments (WEST-E and ACTFL OPIc and WPT). In 2017, the 75-hour program will offer six UW credits of EDC&I 495 from the University of Washington College of Education and will run from June 19, 2017 through July 21, 2017 with both online and in-person components.

Contact(s)

SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Teacher)

Seattle Schools Startalk Teacher Certification

Language(s)

Chinese, Korean, Portuguese

Date(s)

June 23, 2017 – July 14, 2017: (Face-to-face)

Location(s)

Chong Wa Benevolent Association Hall, Seattle, WA

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

This three week summer intensive program will take place June 23-July 14. Seattle Public Schools (SPS) Startalk Teacher Certification Program will start a new Cohort 11 of 5 Chinese, 3 Korean and 3 Portuguese speaking teacher candidates to join the returning Cohort 10 (4 participants) in a state approved teacher certification program. Cohort 10 will take its own 6 graduate level credits in the alternate route teacher certification sequence, totaling 180 instructional hours . The new Cohort 11 will begin their initial set of courses for 6 graduate level classes. Day 1 (Friday, June 23) features the orientation to certification seminar and first day of classes, with the following Week 1 consisting of morning certification classes and afternoon lab school prep. Weeks 2 and 3 will consist of a supervised morning lab school practicum with a working lunch debrief and prep in the afternoons. Those in Cohort 10 who completed summer 2016 and who have also completed the fall Issues of Child Abuse and Neglect class, spring student teaching and the culminating EdTPA, will be eligible for state teaching certificates by the end of Summer 2017.

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About STARTALK

STARTALK is a project funded by the National Security Agency and administered by the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. STARTALK’s mission is to increase the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking, and teaching critical-need foreign languages, with programs for students (K-16) and teachers. MORE